Help with Helmet Identification

Runjeet Singh · 11th October 2013, 09:47 PM

No problem Charles, happy to help.
Here is a photo from the Royal Armouries, Leeds, England.

The same helmet, again with padding (which I have never seen outside of a museum) and the traditional Sudanese dress.

I have seen some early photos of Sudanese warriors in these helmets and chain mail armour - but I don't have them saved.

Regards,
Runjeet

CharlesS · 11th October 2013, 09:53 PM

Thanks yet again for that pic. I'd love to get more on the Co. that may have manufactured these....that must be a story within itself. Afterall, surely they did not manufacture these for the Madhists!!! Were they made for the Egyptians that administered the Sudan?? I know there were Sudanese troops fighting alongside the British, but was there an independent Sudanese government that could have ordered such pieces?

That really raises so many interesting questions, and I have no idea how to go about finding the answers.

11th October 2013, 09:47 PM	#1
Runjeet Singh Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Warwickshire, England Posts: 150	No problem Charles, happy to help. Here is a photo from the Royal Armouries, Leeds, England. The same helmet, again with padding (which I have never seen outside of a museum) and the traditional Sudanese dress. I have seen some early photos of Sudanese warriors in these helmets and chain mail armour - but I don't have them saved. Regards, Runjeet Attached Images

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11th October 2013, 09:53 PM	#2
CharlesS Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Greenville, NC Posts: 1,854	Thanks yet again for that pic. I'd love to get more on the Co. that may have manufactured these....that must be a story within itself. Afterall, surely they did not manufacture these for the Madhists!!! Were they made for the Egyptians that administered the Sudan?? I know there were Sudanese troops fighting alongside the British, but was there an independent Sudanese government that could have ordered such pieces? That really raises so many interesting questions, and I have no idea how to go about finding the answers.